Top 7 Eliot Porter Quotes (2025 Update)

Eliot Porter Quote: “My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.”

1. “My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.”

2. “I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself – for the photograph – without consideration of how it may be used.”

— Eliot Porter

3. “The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can’t be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.”

— Eliot Porter

4. “Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.”

— Eliot Porter

5. “You learn to see by practice. It’s Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can’t be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.”

— Eliot Porter

6. “Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.”

— Eliot Porter

7. “Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.”

— Eliot Porter

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